You create your own reality. Does that statement make you leap for joy, or does it feel like a HUGE responsibility? Some people take it and run with it - masters of their own destiny - the responsibility sitting so lightly on them that they could almost take off and...

Do you procrastinate? If you said no, I don’t believe you because at different points in life we ALL do. You know sometimes it’s healthy too! It’s our mind’s way of telling us that something isn’t quite right. It’s like a kind of sense check. We think we know what...

Fear is a funny old thing. It’s nature’s way of protecting us by invoking a fight, flight or freeze response when we’re afraid. As part of our ancient wiring it allows us to act appropriately when we’re in a dangerous situation, like facing a dangerous wild animal or...

Are we obsessed with imposters? Have you ever noticed, it seems like many books and films run with a story line involving an imposter? There’s often a character masquerading as someone they’re not and often for some kind ofl gain. Take The Man in the Iron Mask, The...

Have you ever read the book ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ by Dr Spencer Johnson? It’s the story of 4 characters – Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw - who live in a maze. The thing they have in common is that they all love cheese and, for a while, life feels pretty good because...

I hurt my back hugging yesterday. My lodger and I were playing the fool as we sometimes do. It might sound like a silly thing for a 55 year old to do but hey I used to run an Adventure playground and you can’t take the play out of this old girl!   Well my 6 foot...

What’s your tipping point? I think we all of us have things in life that annoy us, trigger or fire us up. Discrimination, bullying, poverty, homelessness, injustice, to name just a few. Many of us have a cause or two close to our hearts, things that we passionately...